Ankur have more than 10 years of International experience in corporate innovation , Partnerships and alliances , product & program management. True passion is all about helping start-ups scale and building thriving communities around entrepreneurship. Ankur is passionate about enabling start-ups to make positive differences and adding value to the start-up ecosystem. Currently , Ankur is now part of Plaksha University working as Associate Director for InfoEdge Centre for Entreprenuership. The idea is to build the centre to foster entrepreneurship not only at the plaksha university but to the overall reigon i.e. Tri-City region. Centre focus is to create domestic as well as partnerships globally to attract the right set of startups to help with the various requirements of the startups. Ankur was a founding member of an organization whose dream was to turn Hyderabad into one of the leading start-up cities in the world, and that vision was fulfilled through the creation of the T-Hub Foundation in partnership with the Government of Telangana. Ankur has worked with Techstars , IIIT-Hyderabad , Eleven01 , Microsoft which is a mix of a Start-up Catalyst, Start-up & Corporate worked on emerging tech on AI at T-Hub , Blockchain at Eleven01, Quantum computing at Microsoft, Digital at Adani Digital & now with Academia with InfoEdge Centre for Entrepreneurship at Plaksha University. Ankur has in-depth knowledge of the global and Indian start-up ecosystems, and have successfully built a strong community that includes start-ups, incubators & accelerators, investors, corporates, govt organizations & others. A Certified Six Sigma Green Belt by British Standards of Institution, ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Certified by Bureau of Indian Standards & also Design thinking for Innovation from University of Virginia.